Trump sends 10 stealth fighter planes to Puerto Rico amid war on Caribbean drug cartels

<p>Move comes after accusing Venezuela of buzzing US warship and a deadly US missile strike in Caribbean Sea</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/donaldtrump">Donald Trump</a> is sending 10 F-35 fighter jets to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/puerto-rico">Puerto Rico</a> to bolster US military operations against drug cartels in the Caribbean region, it was reported on Friday.</p><p>If follows a <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/02/trump-venezuela-boat-lethal-strike">deadly US missile strike</a> on Tuesday on a boat in the Caribbean Sea that the Trump administration insisted was carrying 11 Venezuelan drug traffickers, and comments by the secretary of state, Marco Rubio, on Wednesday that such attacks “<a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/09/03/hegseth-rubio-promise-more-military-strikes-on-drug-targets/85963709007/">will happen again</a>”.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/05/trump-fighter-planes-puerto-rico-venezuela-drug-cartel">Continue reading...</a>